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that he is "first and foremost a materialist and then a scientist":
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow

compel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal
world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori
adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investi-
gation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations,

no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to
the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we
cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. 63
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma

kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This
dogma maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore,

it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter created life. It in-
sists that millions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish, gi-
raffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human
beings) originated as a result of the interactions between mat-

ter such as pouring rain, lightning flashes, and so on, out of
inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and

science. Yet Darwinists continue to defend it just so as "not to
allow a Divine Foot in the door."
Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings
with a materialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All liv-

ing beings are works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-
Wise, and All-Knowing. This Creator is God, Who created the

whole universe from non-existence, designed it in the most
perfect form, and fashioned all living beings.